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Awards include "Best Hustle," "Most Improved," and 4 time winner of "Perfect Attendance."

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GottaLaff, to journalism
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"America is on the brink, so of course the doesn't get it. Last week, the disconnect between rising GOP - on a debate stage, in 's arrest posturing - and journalists covering 'a normal election' was really jarring

Now what?

The media is really not getting it about 2024, GOP authoritarianism and the election"

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©.. & I thread it. 1/...🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html#loaded

bransonturner,
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@GottaLaff The news media is slow to understand that, in a Trump America 2, they will be the first to be sued, raided, and shut down by a hostile DOJ unconcerned with the Constitution.

First they came for the journalists...

Popehat, to random

https://youtu.be/aiVkyD1yzJg

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@Popehat

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breadandcircuses, to Arizona

A perfect (and perfectly scary) title from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) —

"If a Cactus Can't Survive This, Neither Can You"

You might’ve seen recent headlines about saguaro cacti keeling over in Arizona after spending nearly a month above 110° Fahrenheit (43°C).

Not even a week later, The Washington Post ran this absurd story: “Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.”

I’m not linking to it. That’s how bad it is.

It’s not just getting a little hotter. It’s getting so hot that saguaro cacti are deflating in the desert. They evolved roughly 20,000 years ago. They’ve spent millennia adapting to a hot desert environment. They live up to 200 years in the hottest, driest environments on the planet. These cactuses are saying, “I can’t take it anymore,” and sagging over dead.

And we’re being told we can adapt.

I got curious about what temperature the human body can actually withstand, and it’s somewhere around 108°F (42°C). That’s when your proteins start to denature. A wet bulb temperature beyond 95°F (35°C) can kill a person in about six hours. No amount of heat tolerance can save anyone from that.

It strikes me as just a little ridiculous that out here in reality, parts of the world are becoming absolutely uninhabitable, and wellness writers are just now telling us to start building up our heat tolerance.

It feels like we’re being prepared and conditioned to start blaming heat deaths on someone’s “low heat tolerance,” as if it’s just another precondition that helps them rationalize indifference in the face of mass death.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/if-a-cactus-cant-survive-this-neither

bransonturner,
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@breadandcircuses @jessicawildfire Boy that last graf had a twist!

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Nobody ever talks about Old Zealand, so you know whatever happened there must have been really bad.

bransonturner,
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@lowqualityfacts I was going to make a zealots joke, but these comments are dark AF.

mattsheffield, (edited ) to random
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🧵 We live in dangerous times principally because rapacious oligarchs have weaponized ignorance for political gain.

John Stuart Mill nailed it more than 150 years ago that stupidity is inherently right wing.

For decades, Republicans have leveraged this fact to gain political power through manipulation of people who are uneducated and/or ignorant.

Now, they have re-birthed the "Satanic Panic" to gain votes in a very dangerous move...

bransonturner,
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@mattsheffield When's GIJoe gonna sue for that branding?

GottaLaff, to random
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Clichés I fervently wish would go away (partial list):

"Saying the quiet part out loud"

"I'm old enough to remember"

"Are you surprised?"/"Why are you surprised?"/ "I'm not surprised."

"History will not judge them kindly"

So many reasons why they irk me, not worth elaborating on. Kthxbye.

bransonturner,
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@GottaLaff "Double down" instead of "repeat" drives me nuts. Really? Did they double the amount of money/value/credibility/whatever staked, or did they just say something again?

textfiles, to random
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I've gone through 3 million manuals in the Internet Archive's collections and produced a "Manuals Showcase", a few dozen manuals that are sure to catch your eye here and there. Readable online, downloadable, and ad-free.

https://archive.org/details/manuals_showcase

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bransonturner,
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@textfiles I adored finding these back in my branding/copywriting days

MnemosyneSinger, to random

A billion dollars is an obscene amount of money that one does not acquire without causing significant harm to people and planet. Billionaires should not exist.

bransonturner,
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@MnemosyneSinger I keep trying to make happen, in spite of Regina George's dirty looks.

BZBrainz, to actuallyautistic
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@Adhdinos @actuallyautistic
I'm asking for help. If you have the spoons to spare, could you help me find a replacement for this ceramic dish? I am hunting for an exact pattern match—"The Blueberry Plate," my 8 yr old niece's favorite dish. She accidentally dropped her plate while trying to get it to the sink. 16P Proximal Deletion Syndrome, another type of neurodivergence in my family, can make muscle tone, coordination, and proprioception difficult. THANK YOU!

bransonturner,
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@BZBrainz You might reach out to Fishs Eddy in NYC via their contact page. They have sold so many original dishes from so many collections that they might be able to help you identify it even if they don't have one. They're practically a museum of dishware.
https://fishseddynyc.com/

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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I feel like every conversation that I have about the breakdown of society goes like this:

Me: Talks about the breakdown of institutions, increased corporate influence in the government & wage slavery.

Average person: "No! People just need to stop being lazy and go to work!"

bransonturner,
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@BlackAzizAnansi might I introduce you to the comedy stylings of @paulisci ...?

GottaLaff, to Georgia
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Defendant is awfully rattled. The judge will have to Chutkan him and put her/his foot down.

Via Angry Staffer (and several others, and as always, I won’t post ’s deranged rants):

“Trump is on one this morning.

He’s going after and blatantly tampering with other witnesses.”

bransonturner,
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@GottaLaff interesting to think that, really, only one judge has to muzzle him for him to stop talking about all the cases.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Well deserved.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

bransonturner,
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@lowqualityfacts

Nice try.

WHICH Chuck E. Cheese?

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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bransonturner,
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@nocontexttrek "Let me mansplain this in interpretive dance... I call it, 'Poor Appropriated Approximation When at a Minimum You Could Learn This From a Culturally Correct Expert on the Holodeck: a Dance in 3 Movements"

GottaLaff, to Georgia
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Via Kyle Cheney:

NEW: David Shafer, 1 of 19 defendants w Trump in , posted transcript of 12/2020 meeting of false electors as part of court action..shows campaign atty Ray Smith advice + posted email att’y Alex Kaufman (not charged) sent him on 12/10/20 copying several Trump campaign atty’s/affiliates. It's part of Shafer's effort to remove charges to fed court. Argues his efforts were all based on advice of Trump campaign & party lawyers https://t.co/22DScFjgOt

bransonturner,
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@GottaLaff tell Jeff he can decide civil vs criminal when there's an oil spill somewhere

Popehat, to random
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@Popehat

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nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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bransonturner,
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@nocontexttrek blow this up and hang it on my wall!

zoomar, to Seattle
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    @zoomar My NYC years had some wild Augusts-- and like the PNW, we didn't have AC everywhere.

    bransonturner,
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    @zoomar Arizonians in 101 heat: what's the big deal?
    Arizonians in 90 degrees with 90 percent humidity: WTAF!!!

    ElleGray, to random
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    bransonturner,
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    @ElleGray I'm thinking less "defect" and more Total Recall!

    dgar, to random
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    They just sit there, the worms. Hardly the chaos that's been advertised.

    bransonturner,
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    @dgar Did you know that opening the family size can of whoop ass does nothing? You have to whoop the ass yourself.

    ElleGray, to random
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    @ElleGray

    bransonturner,
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    @ElleGray had no idea about the reason for the Moleskine bleedthru, I'll be switching for my next notebook!

    Chron, to news

    Joe Biden to Dusty Baker at the White House: "Dusty, it wasn't easy. People counted you out, saying you were past your prime. Hell, I know something about that."

    https://www.chron.com/sports/astros/article/dusty-baker-president-biden-joke-18283093.php

    bransonturner,
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    @Chron Donald Trump to A.J. Hinch at the White House: "Yeah, banging trash cans, and the lids, the beautiful lids. Because the signs, you have to steal--grown men coming up to me with tears in their eyes, 'Sir, sir, you have to steal the signs.' Cheating, I know something about that."

    Toastie, to random
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    Peaches
    Fuck the Pain Away

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rRIIWo_JeA

    bransonturner,
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    @Toastie the opening lines of this song are a long-time inside reference for my wife and I because we first heard it on a date in the film Lost in Translation.

    arstechnica, to random
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    AI-powered brain implants help paralyzed patients communicate faster than ever

    New brain-computer interfaces are faster than existing solutions.

    https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/ai-powered-brain-implants-help-paralyzed-patients-communicate-faster-than-ever/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    bransonturner,
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    @arstechnica until, as we've seen, the company goes broke or can't make enough profit on the implant and shuts down repairs and updates.

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